Homeward bound…

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Our journey home began with a 7:30am flight from Austin and we decided it would be a good idea to not bother sleeping the night before…

Ashton stayed up with us, watching Vanilla Sky and Family Guy until it was time to drop us at the airport. We were all lagging by 5am, so it was a struggle to pull our gigantic rucksacks onto our backs. Of course, we were a little sad to be leaving Austin too, we’d met some great people there, but I don’t think I could have been more excited about heading home after 47 days away.

We were flying with Delta, which is an appalling airline. They don’t mention anywhere when purchasing tickets that you’ll have to pay $15 for each bag you check in, and when they tell you you’ll be getting breakfast/lunch on your flight – you don’t – and of course they were delayed by almost two hours. Luckily, we had so many hours of waiting that day that it didn’t make a difference. We still shuffled around like zombies, moving from terminal to terminal and catching a bit of shut-eye at every opportunity.

A couple of hours were wasted in a stop over at Minneapolis before we could get our connecting flight to New York. It was cold and raining – summing up our moods exactly. We were sat separately on the flight and a kid kept kicking my chair, because apparently that doesn’t just happen on TV. Fortunately no one was sat next to me and I switched seats.

With New York came a six hour wait for our flight back to England. We tried to stretch out a meal and we walked about a bit, but finally we headed to the gate and failed to stay awake. Our plane was delayed by half an hour, but at 11:45pm we finally, finally boarded to make our six hours and ten minute trek across the Atlantic, divided by sleep, movies and anticipation.

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